Channel Frederator Blog

Geez, these guys are good.

Mike Lazzo is one of the smartest folks ever in cable television. He started as a cartoon scheduler at SuperstationTBS, impressed everyone around and was named the founding programmer at Cartoon Network. While he was using his considerable left brain to make CN super successful, his right brain was churning ideas like crazy and his innovative production of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast begat his explosion of [adult swim].

Mike put together an incredible network team, made up entirely of not-the-usual-network-suspects, probably a large part of their success. They were focused on the viewers, all the viewers, and nothing but the viewers. They spoke to them in every way possible and were the first to have a deep understanding of how to actually use the internet to build the relationship between what’s essentailly a corporate enterprise and a diffuse bunch of geeks. And the audience has paid them back in spades with a loyalty that must be the envy of absolutely every other television executive in America.

–Fred